San Francisco Zoo

"All this legal action is likely to impact the financial viability of the zoo. Whether the zoo can stay open is a big question. " Rory Little, a professor at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law on the future of the San Francisco Zoo after a tiger escaped from its habitat and attacked three visitors, killing one.

SOUTH BEND Â? Potawatomi Zoo's big cat exhibits are not moat exhibits like the one at the San Francisco Zoo, which was the site of a fatal tiger attack earlier this week. A Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its enclosure on Tuesday, killing a 17-year-old boy and injuring two other men. Potawatomi Zoo director Terry DeRosa said he was surprised by the incident and that big cats escaping from enclosures is extremely rare. In his more than 20 years of working in the zoo profession, DeRosa said he doesn't believe that a large animal has ever escaped from a moated exhibit.

"Give this process a chance to be finished. This is the time for Kenyans to come together. " U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger in appealing for calm as Kenyans riot over the slow return of results from the closest presidential election in the country's history. "I don't care why she left. Hey, she's alive. That's the most important thing. " Dhiren Patel, brother of Anu Solanki, a married woman from Illinois who disappeared on Christmas Eve, prompting a costly search, but later returned.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Attendance was up at the San Francisco Zoo following a tiger attack that killed a young man on Christmas Day, a zoo spokesman said Saturday. Twice as many visitors came to the zoo when the facility reopened Thursday as had visited the same day last year, spokesman Paul Garcia said. Most of the 782 visitors arrived before heavy rains began falling over the city Thursday afternoon. Just under 400 visitors came to the zoo the entire day on Jan. 3, 2007, Garcia said. Severe storms over Northern California forced the zoo to close again Friday, as high wind brought down tree branches and knocked out power at the facility.

Following the death Christmas Day of a San Francisco Zoo visitor in a tiger attack, officials at the Potawatomi Zoo were quick to reassure the public that a tiger escape could not happen here. It isn't that we don't believe them. We do. It's just that one cannot help but think that officials at the San Francisco Zoo would have said exactly the same thing the day before a 350-pound Siberian tiger exited her enclosure, killed a 17-year-old boy and mauled two men. The investigation continues as experts on wild animal displays try to figure out how this could have happened.

Readers will recall the incident on Christmas day in which a Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped her enclosure, killed a 17-year-old boy and mauled two men. Zoos have a number of challenging responsibilities. At the top of the list is the duty to keep humans safe from animals and to keep animals safe from humans. Failure to meet either part of that obligation is bound to cause public concern -- and make headlines, as it did in both Detroit and South Bend last month. On May 24, a lion bit and scratched an employee of the Detroit Zoo. Earlier that day, a leopard had injured a worker at the Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend.

SOUTH BEND Â? The deadly attack is raising concerns about the safety at zoos across the country, including the zoo in South Bend. The Potawatomi Zoo plans to re-evaluate their emergency procedures as soon as they learn exactly how the tiger escaped in San Francisco. However, the Potawatomi Zoo believes they take the necessary steps to keep the public safe. Tai-Myr, a 400-pound Siberian tiger, has called the Potawatomi Zoo home for the last six years. "He's been a good cat, he's non-aggressive pretty much.

Readers will recall the incident on Christmas day in which a Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped her enclosure, killed a 17-year-old boy and mauled two men. Zoos have a number of challenging responsibilities. At the top of the list is the duty to keep humans safe from animals and to keep animals safe from humans. Failure to meet either part of that obligation is bound to cause public concern -- and make headlines, as it did in both Detroit and South Bend last month. On May 24, a lion bit and scratched an employee of the Detroit Zoo. Earlier that day, a leopard had injured a worker at the Potawatomi Zoo in South Bend.

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- Attendance was up at the San Francisco Zoo following a tiger attack that killed a young man on Christmas Day, a zoo spokesman said Saturday. Twice as many visitors came to the zoo when the facility reopened Thursday as had visited the same day last year, spokesman Paul Garcia said. Most of the 782 visitors arrived before heavy rains began falling over the city Thursday afternoon. Just under 400 visitors came to the zoo the entire day on Jan. 3, 2007, Garcia said. Severe storms over Northern California forced the zoo to close again Friday, as high wind brought down tree branches and knocked out power at the facility.

Following the death Christmas Day of a San Francisco Zoo visitor in a tiger attack, officials at the Potawatomi Zoo were quick to reassure the public that a tiger escape could not happen here. It isn't that we don't believe them. We do. It's just that one cannot help but think that officials at the San Francisco Zoo would have said exactly the same thing the day before a 350-pound Siberian tiger exited her enclosure, killed a 17-year-old boy and mauled two men. The investigation continues as experts on wild animal displays try to figure out how this could have happened.

Single shot kills two at party; New Year's revelry suspected DENVER (AP) -- A single bullet that may have been fired in celebration of the new year ripped through the wall of a house shortly after midnight Tuesday, killing an 11-year-old girl and a woman attending a party inside, investigators said. "It might have been an accident, which still would be illegal if someone was firing a weapon recklessly in the city," Police Chief Gerry Whitman said. Investigators believe the weapon was a high-powered rifle, Whitman said.

"Give this process a chance to be finished. This is the time for Kenyans to come together. " U.S. Ambassador to Kenya Michael Ranneberger in appealing for calm as Kenyans riot over the slow return of results from the closest presidential election in the country's history. "I don't care why she left. Hey, she's alive. That's the most important thing. " Dhiren Patel, brother of Anu Solanki, a married woman from Illinois who disappeared on Christmas Eve, prompting a costly search, but later returned.

"All this legal action is likely to impact the financial viability of the zoo. Whether the zoo can stay open is a big question. " Rory Little, a professor at the University of California's Hastings College of the Law on the future of the San Francisco Zoo after a tiger escaped from its habitat and attacked three visitors, killing one.

SOUTH BEND Â? Potawatomi Zoo's big cat exhibits are not moat exhibits like the one at the San Francisco Zoo, which was the site of a fatal tiger attack earlier this week. A Siberian tiger at the San Francisco Zoo escaped from its enclosure on Tuesday, killing a 17-year-old boy and injuring two other men. Potawatomi Zoo director Terry DeRosa said he was surprised by the incident and that big cats escaping from enclosures is extremely rare. In his more than 20 years of working in the zoo profession, DeRosa said he doesn't believe that a large animal has ever escaped from a moated exhibit.

SOUTH BEND Â? The deadly attack is raising concerns about the safety at zoos across the country, including the zoo in South Bend. The Potawatomi Zoo plans to re-evaluate their emergency procedures as soon as they learn exactly how the tiger escaped in San Francisco. However, the Potawatomi Zoo believes they take the necessary steps to keep the public safe. Tai-Myr, a 400-pound Siberian tiger, has called the Potawatomi Zoo home for the last six years. "He's been a good cat, he's non-aggressive pretty much.